I’m pretty sure this is a third party, but they shouldn’t be forcing discord. Not everyone uses it. I don’t use it, I’m mentally stuck in 2004. Will they accept MSN?
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I dislike discord very much, just wanted to add that.
I’m locked out of two discord accounts already just because I lose my phone or whatever.
Seems lazy to rely on discord for security/authentication.
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Same, for me it’s more the reason I’m a dad gamer, I like playing games every now and then but I have very little interest in talking to people inside or outside of games and don’t want to move to the next cool social media.
That’s just my experience, I get most people aren’t like this. They should atleast link Google accounts or something like LostCity does.
I’m not a huge fan of Discord either. Offering sign-in with Google is no better - we’d still be handing authentication off to a megacorp.
The main driver was Discord’s abuse protection - it’s far better than anything we could feasibly accomplish on our own. The mod team’s workload has gone way down since the Discord registration system was implemented.
The market website is third party, and previously they didn’t require auth beyond generating you a token when you created listings. This led to abuse - malicious actors would post fake listings using other players’ usernames, leading to nonstop PM spam in-game. We saw some really nasty behavior here too (extortion - “pay me to stop creating fake listings under your name”) so be glad you weren’t affected by that!
For what it’s worth, using Discord for authentication doesn’t mean you have to chat with anybody. I don’t think you even have to join the Lost City discord room - we use Discord purely as an identity service, nothing more.
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The discord authentication is not a Markets specific restriction. All new accounts on the game itself require discord authentication. The reason Markets has the same restriction is because that’s the only way to authenticate users without requiring them to input their password. And as the sole developer of Markets, I do NOT want the responsibility of managing user passwords. I want to be as far away as possible from personal data.
Sadly, introducing discord authentication is a necessary evil. Like branon was saying, there are a lot of bad actors that will do more than you would even believe to harm the server, and even the Markets. Discord is one of the only widely used services that has really good abuse protection.
Signing in with discord is a one-time thing. Create a discord account, sign in, and you’re done. As long as the cookie stays in your browser, you’ll always be signed in and you’ll never have to touch discord again.
I really hate that I had to do it. I was really hoping Markets could be a simple little listing site, but of course people had to ruin it.
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Hey does the email have to be the same? Discord and account email same?
Discord acts as email verification for in-game accounts. Whatever email you used for your Discord account effectively becomes your registered email for in-game characters. This is also how the marketplace website works.
Forum accounts here are completely separate and don’t need to be the same.
Let me know if this doesn’t answer your question 